blunder

The vehicle, which does, underneath all those angles, feature a truck bed with a motorized cover, was almost immediately labeled a colossal blunder.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

Einstein famously referred to his introduction of the cosmological constant as his "biggest blunder," since his original equations without the additional term could have predicted an expanding universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

A well-delivered line about Ms. Graham’s “not my thing” blunder drew loud laughter and applause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Instead of owning the blunder, Schmitt doubled down.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

The trade of pieces looked like a schoolboy’s blunder.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

There were mighty blunders off the field too under Jarmond, including an email that went out to donors that came with an attachment revealing personal information and spending tallies of the department’s biggest donors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Turning baseball into the Dodgers versus the Dodger-nots is a convenient way to obscure your own blunders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

AI-generated blunders do not necessarily destroy a lawyer's case, French lawyer Damien Charlotin told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

A horrific crime turned into a national scandal as France realised the scale of official blunders that had left Barella at liberty.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

The urge to catalog the myriad blunders in order to “learn from the mistakes” is for the most part an exercise in denial and self-deception.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Instead, the Eagles had to kickoff with eight seconds to go, and they blundered again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"It should have been drawn, but Ding blundered as the pressure grew."

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

Further, prosecutors blundered in January 2023 by adding a “gun enhancement” when filing involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin and Gutierrez Reed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2024

Addressing some 100 C.I.A. officials on March 19, Mr. Burns acknowledged how the agency catastrophically blundered in its assessment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2023

He could not see over it, and he staggered to the steps and up them and blundered crashing against the door, shedding billets.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

When the toys use messaging apps to control their owners in ways that go terrifyingly unnoticed, humankind itself seems to be blundering about with its brain unplugged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The Bath wing copped a first unfortunate yellow card for not releasing the tackled man and then a clumsy second, blundering into an airborne Kyle Steyn.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

At the 1994 tournament in Linares, Spain, Mr. Kasparov—as the camera later showed—made a blundering move, let go of the piece, changed his mind and moved it back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Naive, blundering hobbyists and reckless pranksters can also veer into restricted airspace, setting off alarms and potentially shutting down airport traffic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

Our involvement is not that of an adversary in a straightforward game, but more like blundering into someone else’s accident.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas